Monday, November 22, 2021

Drake Park and Mirror Pond, Bend, OR

Ann and I so enjoyed our overnight trip to Bend, Oregon a couple of weeks back that we planned a weekend stay this last weekend before Thanksgiving before it becomes tricky to cross the Cascades. We lucked out in that despite the pouring rain in the Willamette Valley, snowfall in the Santiam Pass was only a dusting and the weather on the Bend side was spectacular, if cold. The views of the snow-covered Cascades from Bend, hidden behind cloud cover on our prior visit, were spectacular, reminding us a bit of our time at Grand Teton NP.

Although our primary mission was to get to know the town rather than brewery hop as we did last visit, we added to our collection of breweries while we were there, tasting beers at Three Creeks in Sisters, Immersion, Crux, Bend Brewing, McMenamin's Old St. Francis School, and Cascade Lakes. Most of the time, we spent wandering around Bend, getting a feel for the place, at one point ending up in Drake Park where I shot just a few frames. The light and the reflections off the Mirror Pond, an impoundment of the Deschutes River, could not have been better.

 



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